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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Eight Change of Plan

DAY EIGHT Wednesday 14th September 2016 (all-day event) NOTE: Due to streaming ending in the UK of the scheduled film It Felt Like Love directed…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: What Happened, Miss Simone?

DAY SIX Sunday 11th September 2016 (all-day event)   Film: What Happened, Miss Simone?   Femme Filmmaker: Liz Garbus The title What Happened, Miss Simone?…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn

DAY FIVE Saturday 10th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn   Femme Filmmaker: Liv Corfixen Danish film-maker Nicolas Winding…

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Decade Shadan We Need To Talk About Kevin
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Femme Filmmakers Festival: We Need To Talk About Kevin

DAY FOUR Friday 9th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: We Need To Talk About Kevin Femme Filmmaker: Lynne Ramsay Bringing Lionel Shriver’s novel to the…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Middle of Nowhere

DAY THREE Sunday 4th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: Middle of Nowhere Femme Filmmaker: Ava DuVernay A hit at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Girlhood

DAY TWO Saturday 3rd September 2016 (all-day event)   Film: Girlhood   Femme Filmmaker: Céline Sciamma Bande de filles from French translates to group of…

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
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Femme Filmmakers Festival: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

OPENING NIGHT Friday 2nd September 2016 (all-day event)   Film: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night   Femme Filmmaker: Ana Lily Amirpour In the open darkness…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival – Line-Up Announced

Following Netflix taking The Hurt Locker, City of God, and Una Noche from their streaming service recently, I was near-devastated that I could not include those movies directed by…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival – September Is Coming

Those of you that joined me last year in the #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Parties ought to be delighted to know that over at the…

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Day Eight
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Day Eight of the Femme Filmmakers Film Festival Might be the busiest yet

You want another podcast, you got it. More interviews, sure. Plenty of reviews coming your way too. Day Eight of FemmeFilmFest combines the feature genre…

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Hot Seat Anna Kerrigan Filmotomy
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Femme Film fest 23 Classic Short Weekend: Hot Seat (Anna Kerrigan)

2nd FEMME FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL (2017) How awkward is it to not be one of the cool kids invited to a teen house party? Ask Andrea…

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The Piano Jane Campion Femme Film Fest Filmotomy
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Femme Film Fest 23 Review: The Piano (Jane Campion)

The first film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes (it shared the victory with Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine), New…

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Capernaum Filmotomy Femme Film Fest Nadine Labaki
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Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)

I know we have become a much more refined bunch of film critic snobs over the years. But I take objection to some of the…

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JC Farris Assembly Line of Broken Hearts Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: An Extensive Chat With ‘Assembly Line of Broken Hearts’ Creator JC Farris

Picking the brains of someone like filmmaker JC Farris is pretty much like opening a Pandora’s box of creative infection. Her latest short film, Assembly…

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